10/18/02Catastrophe! Our
Mt. Kilimanjaro Key Chains and Paper Weights Will be Useless.
"The ice will be gone by about 2020," said Thompson, the first author
of a study appearing Friday in the journal Science. The diminishing
ice already has reduced the amount of water in some Tanzanian rivers and
the government fears that when Kilimanjaro is bald of snow the tourists
will stop coming.